Bob Woodside wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010, Stephen Y Odo wrote: > >> I've been trying to get Linux onto our z890 (even have CENTOS running >> in an LPAR as a proof-of-concept) >> > > What version of CentOS, and where did you find an installation > image? I looked around for one a year or so ago, but couldn't find one > that wasn't years out of date. > > iirc, the CentOS folks used to maintain regular builds for > 390/System z, but seem to have stopped some time ago. I guess there > aren't any mainframers active in the CentOS project anymore. (Sad to > say, that sort of thing is symptomatic of moribundity in a platform.) > > I downloaded the CentOS 4.8 s390x "tape" install files from their site and built a boot tape on a 3490E cartridge. Used the ICKDSF bootstrap loader I downloaded from somewhere off of the net (sorry, lost my notes so don't know where I found anything ... used Google to find everything including the notes on how to do it ... from the SHARE or Linux/VM web site I think) ...
Booted from the tape to run the CentOS installer and now I have a system running. >> but our management has decreed that all future development will be >> Solaris/SPARC or Linux/Intel. >> > > Why no Solaris/Intel option? > Because we've standardized on SPARC ... we have over 100 SPARC boxes of various sizes and flavors in our machine room ... --Stephen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
